The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Explain what this story says about each of these issues:-FAMILY-AGE-BEAUTY. Use examples from the story to support your explanations for each.


Family was a big issue in the book of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, I think that in this story the word Family didn't have a meaning. As you read in the book you see that there is no respect love and support in the Buttons Family, they never socialize as a family. This shows that they really don't care about the family, and don't know what it means. For example as you read in the story you can see that Benjamin didn't get respect for who he was, nobody loved him that way he was, and he had no support. Sometimes people will make fun of him when he will say that he was a newborn baby, when he wants to go to college thay don't accept him because he is to old, when he goes to the colonel thay don't accept because he is too young whe he really is old. His parents can't accept him the way he is until they get use to him so it means they really didn't love him, Benjamin's son hates the benjamin is and looks at him as a weirdo. Benjamin doesn't have any support and has to go through everything alone, the critizes and the problems. As you can see when Benjamin has his own family, he don't know what a family is because later he don't love his wife but feels embarass of her because she is to old when he looks young, His son doesn't want to hang out with him because he looks to old to be Benjamin's son.



Age is another big issue in this Story. Age is a really weird action for Benjamin, and a really uncommon thing. Each time he is one year old he gets younger instead of getting older. Age is backwards here, he born as an old man and gets younger as time passes, and he knows one day he will be a baby and everything will turn dark. You could see age is a really important thing, age is required for everything. You can't go to college if your too old because when Benjamin goes to college when he is 18 they don't accept because he looks to old and doesn't look like 18. When he goes to the colonel to get his position he don't get accepted because he looks to young when he really is old enough to take the position. In this story you could also see that in love there is no age a young women could marry an old man, or a young man can marry an old women, but the most important thing is to love each other and not be enbarrass with who you are.



Beauty is another issue in The Case of Benjamin Button. In this story they will make Benjamin look ugly throughout his life. When he was newborn they wouldn't like him because he looked to old and when he was an older person his son wouldn't accept him because he looke to young to be his father. Benjamin and his relatives will always have to worry for him to look the right way. Benjamin couldn't help it, so he just let it on.